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Biography

I arrived at the Ottawa Citizen in 1987 after working at a series of southwestern Ontario newspapers where I reported on everything from the dairy and tobacco industries to courts and cops. At the Citizen, I have covered courts, Queen's Park and general assignment, written features and edited the Saturday Style section. Since 2002, I have written a column in the Style Weekly section. This is my second stint on the Citizen's editorial board.

Almost everyone is touched by cancer, but many people don’t understand their own risk and what they can do to reduce it, say officials with the Ontario agency in charge of improving cancer services. Cancer Care Ontario hopes to change that with an online tool it launched Tuesday called My CancerIQ, which “helps you understand your […]